Not welcome?
Dang. If ever there’s an issue you’d think would be immune to the Trans Policing & Shunning it would be the Irish church’s persecution of women and children…but nope.
ExCUSE me??? Feminist women “are not welcome” to talk about the Mother and Baby Homes issue? Then who the fuck is? Priests? Popes? Men who play at being women?
Here’s a news flash: men, no matter how intensely they play at being women, remain immune to the kinds of harm done to Irish women and children by the Catholic church. Men don’t get pregnant. It’s that simple. Women have always been treated as permanently under suspicion and probably criminal because women get pregnant. It’s that simple. Men don’t suffer from that disability, and women do, and that’s all there is to it. Men who “identify as” women have nothing to do with this issue, and therefore it’s piling insult on insult to tell feminist women to gtfo of campaigning against the evils the church committed.
Just stop. Get off the train at the next station. Leave it all behind.
Updating to add:
The “certain TERF group” is LGB Alliance Ireland.
This is what one of its founders, Ceri Black, has to say about it:
https://twitter.com/FemmeLoves/status/1369348175321051145
One of the relevant parts:
Oh jeez. That’s so evil.
Oh hey Ophelia, you got referenced (with hearty approval) here!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5kCAFwEjks
If the spokesperson really just wanted to keep to the specific topic she could have written something along the lines of : “we’d prefer to keep to the specific topic.” And stayed neutral.
By citing TWAW she doubled down. And asked for more. Eejit.
And of course there is the suggestion that women’s experience needs to be “legitimized”. No. It does not. My experience as being a woman is an experience as being a woman no matter what some man (in a dress or not) calls it.
Funny how they are all about “validation” but when a woman wants to act on a woman’s issue, they essentially accuse them of needing what the trans demand, and somehow needing that is…wrong? I suspect projection. Trans need someone to legitimize their experience, because they aren’t really women, and they know it. So they pretend we also need that, because…well, just because they can’t face the fact that we are women, we have women’s bodies, we experience things as a woman, and that is that. No, they want to believe we also need our existence validated, and that we will only act on behalf of other women for that purpose.
Assholes.